After Deng: On China's Transformation
In the Nation, Joshua Kurlantzick writes about modern Chinese politics in the post-Deng Xiaoping era in the context of two new books: On China, by Henry Kissinger and Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra Vogel:
Ever since the Communist Party came to power in 1949, forceful, unifying ...
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Xi Jinping’s expression of a “sour, aggrieved nationalism” or ultranationalism provides little hope that the incoming group of Party oligarchs on the Standing Committee of the Politburo will be any more receptive to international norms of political accountability and civil rights protection than their predecessors have been. It looks like more of the same old single-party Leninist authoritarian repression of basic liberal values.